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While Ndlovu originally sued the church for R5 million, Van Rooyen found she had not put up enough evidence to substantiate a claim of that amount. Karabo Ndlovu at the NGO Access Chapter 2 offices in the Pretoria CBD, 23 October 2020. Picture: Jacques Nelles The controversial International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) has been ordered to pay up over a shocking gender-testing scandal, which saw a transgender woman brutally assaulted. The Equality Court sitting in Ga-Rankuwa this week awa...

Talented LGBT+ artist and cabin crew member Aubrey Boshoga was brutally murdered outside his home in South Africa over the weekend.

Outrage as Aubrey Boshogas killing suspected to be another LGBTQI+ hate crime Matuba Mahlatjie © Supplied. Aubrey Boshoga, artist and socialite, was stabbed multiple times outside his Johannesburg home at the weekend in a suspected hate crime. JOHANNESBURG - The body count of slain members of the LGBTQI+ community is still rising. In another suspected hate crime, artist and socialite Aubrey Boshogo was stabbed multiple times outside his home over the weekend in Observatory in...

Alon Skuy, Gallo Images, Sunday Times Young people are getting the wrong information about sex and sexuality in schools, research finds. Incorrect information on sex and sexuality leads to teenage pregnancy and school dropouts. Conservative religious and cultural views, held mainly by the older generation, influence messages around sex that young people receive. Young people in Africa are still getting the wrong messages about sexual health and reproduction in schools. This, according to n...

Home / News & Events / US to contribute a further R45 million for Covid-19 vaccine distribution in SA US to contribute a further R45 million for Covid-19 vaccine distribution in SA | News 24 | Carien du Plessis The United States is contributing a further R45 million to South Africa’s Covid-19 efforts. This is on top of the R785 million already contributed, as well as consignments of personal protective equipment at the start of the pandemic. The US has already vaccinated more than 40% ...

Did you know that TB kills more people each year than any other infectious disease? Did you know that TB is preventable and curable? On March 24, we celebrated World TB Day 2021, recommitting to our efforts to control TB in the face of significant challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year.  Chargé d’Affaires Todd Haskell with Mpumalanga Premier Mtsweni-Tsipane. The United States, through the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Age...

GCIS The South African National AIDS Council Civil Society Forum writes that Jackson Mthembu was a lifelong champion of the people’s struggles for a just and equal society. The South African National AIDS Council Civil Society Forum (Sanac CSF) mourns the loss of a gutsy, committed leader in the fight for social justice and inclusion. Minister Jackson Mthembu was an exemplary leader, an activist at heart and a lifelong champion of the peoples struggles for a just and equal society. His death...

Photo by bill wegener on Unsplash Learners have welcomed the Basic Education Department’s decision to postpone the reopening of schools by two weeks but they fear for their safety. Learners who were supposed to start the 2021 academic year are pleased that they will have two more weeks to remain at home. This follows the decision to postpone the reopening of schools by the department of basic education as COVID-19 cases continue rising. Health-e spoke to learners in Gauteng following this ann...